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David Tappan THE HOLLIS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY AT HARVARD COLLEGE, THE REVEREND DAVID TAPPAN The ancestor of this family, Abraham Toppan, had come to this continent from Yarmouth, England in 1637, there had been any number of intervening generations, and then the father of David Tappan, the Reverend Benjamin Tappan, who had gotten married with Elizabeth Marsh, had been pastor of a church in Manchester, Massachusetts from 1720 to 1790. HDT WHAT? INDEX REVEREND DAVID TAPPAN THE TAPPAN FAMILY 1752 April 21, Monday: David Tappan was born in Manchester, Massachusetts to the Reverend Benjamin Tappan and Elizabeth Marsh Tappan. In addition to David there would be 11 children in that family, Benjamin, Samuel, Mary, Wigglesworth (who would die a bachelor), Abigail, Samuel, Ebenezer, Michael, Elizabeth, Patty, and Amos. THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT The Tappan Family “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX REVEREND DAVID TAPPAN THE TAPPAN FAMILY 1771 James Madison, Jr. graduated from the College of New Jersey (during his education he seems to have compiled ABRIEF SYSTEM OF LOGICK on the basis of lectures offered by the Reverend John Witherspoon). PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ...The arbitrary signs of Ideas have been invented & instituted by Men for the communication of their thoughts to one another, & discover their not being Natural but artificial by their being in various Countries and Ages, various and changeable. The Brute creation have nothing but the Language of Nature, which is intelligible to all those of the same species; but being given only for necessary Uses, makes their conversation and correspondence very narrow and confin’d. Men alone have contrived a more extensive communication of thoughts by inventing several Signs; which in company have agreed to use & understand commonly as expressive of the same sentiments. These signs are partly similar to the Ideas of the mind as pictures and the most ancient Hieroglyphycks, partly dismission, as words either spoken or written; which have no manner of resemblance to the Ideas which they are intended to represent. Speech of all these Inventions, if it be an human invention, & not rather a divine Lesson, is by far the most excellent & has contributed chiefly to exalt the human species above the Brutes. Universal Terms may denote, either a Metaphysical, a Physycal, or a Moral Universality. A Metaphysical or Mathematical Universality, admits of no exception. As, all Circles have a Center and circumferen[ce.] A Physical or Natural Universality admits of some accidental and Praeternatural Exceptions. As, all men use words to express their thoughts, yet dumb Persons are excepted. A Moral universality admits of many exceptions being a sort of Hyperbole, As all men are govern’d by affecti[ons] more than by reason. The Cretes are always Lyars. An universal term is sometimes taken collectively for all its particular Ideas united together; and sometimes distributively meaning each of them single and alone. 1. Collectively: as, all these Apples will fill a Busshel: all the Hours of the night are sufficient for Sleep: All the rules of Grammer overload the memory. In these Propositions it is evident, that the Predicate belongs not to the Individuals seperately, but to the whole collective Idea: for we cannot say, one Apple, or every Apple will fill a Busshel. &c. Wherefore such a Proposition is properly singular. 2. Distributively: when you may turn the word all into every: and the Predicate belongs to every Individual: which makes the Proposition truly and properly universal. As, all Men are mortal, which you may turn into every Man or any Individual Man is Mortal. But of these Distributive Universals there are two kinds. For sometimes they include all the Individuals distributively; as, every sickness has a tendency to Death, i,e, Every individual Sickness. HDT WHAT? INDEX REVEREND DAVID TAPPAN THE TAPPAN FAMILY Sometimes they are restricted to every Species or kind; As, every Disease was heal’d by Christ, i,e, every kind of Disease. The first of these is call’d by Logicians the Distribution of an universal in Singula generum, and the second in genera Singulorum.... David Tappan graduated at Harvard College. He would continue there in the study of divinity. Moses Adams of Framingham graduated from Harvard College. He would become the minister of Acton. The Rev. MOSES ADAMS was a native of Framingham, and a graduate of Harvard in 1771. He died 13th of October, 1819, aged 70. During his long and peaceful ministry [in Acton], 147 were admitted to the church in full communion, 137 owned the covenant to receive baptism, 833 were baptized, and 246 marriages were solemnized. In his intercourse with his people he was conciliatory but independent. He had talents without ostentation, and piety without hypocrisy; all his public performances and private acts were distinguished for their superior good sense. He was emphatically a good, a worthy, and a useful man. Few had died and left a character more deservedly worthy of imitation than his.1 1. Lemuel Shattuck’s 1835 A HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD;.... Boston: Russell, Odiorne, and Company; Concord MA: John Stacy (On or about November 11, 1837 Henry Thoreau would indicate a familiarity with the contents of at least pages 2-3 and 6-9 of this historical study.) HDT WHAT? INDEX REVEREND DAVID TAPPAN THE TAPPAN FAMILY 1774 Dr. John Cuming had left Harvard College a year before graduating, to continue his education and get medical training in Britain. At this point Harvard, noting Dr. Cuming’s fame as a physician and surgeon, awarded him an honorary masters degree. When in this year 4 out of every 5 of Concord’s townsmen signed a Solemn League and Convenant pledging not to consume British goods, Dr. Cuming was in disagreement. As a Crown- appointed justice of the peace, he felt he was sworn to “uphold the king’s law.” Patriots took note of the absence of his signature, and over the next nine months, he was chosen to moderate only one of eight town meetings. David Tappan began to serve as pastor of a Congregational church in Newbury, Massachusetts (until 1792). At the Concord meetinghouse, seating was provided for a choir. Concord began to divide up its school funds in proportion to the amount of taxes paid in its various districts, HDT WHAT? INDEX REVEREND DAVID TAPPAN THE TAPPAN FAMILY with pupils in those districts that had a higher tax basis receiving a greater degree of educational attention. DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. The Tappan Family “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX REVEREND DAVID TAPPAN THE TAPPAN FAMILY 1788 November 7, Friday: Benjamin Tappan was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, son of the Reverend David Tappan of a Congregational church in Newbury, Massachusetts. HDT WHAT? INDEX REVEREND DAVID TAPPAN THE TAPPAN FAMILY 1792 The Reverend Jeremy Belknap, D.D. was made an overseer of Harvard College. In this year, also, the final volume appeared of the his 3-volume THE HISTORY OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. COMPREHENDING THE EVENTS OF ONE COMPLETE CENTURY AND SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE RIVER PASCATAQUA TO THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY. NEW-HAMPSHIRE, I NEW-HAMPSHIRE, II NEW-HAMPSHIRE, III During this year the Reverend David Tappan was chosen to replace the Reverend Edward Wigglesworth (son) in the Hollis Chair of Divinity at Harvard College (he would serve there until his death): Hollis Chair of Divinity Edward Wigglesworth 1722-1765 Calvinist Congregationalist Edward Wigglesworth, son 1765-1792 Calvinist Congregationalist David Tappan 1792-1803 Calvinist Congregationalist Henry Ware, Sr. 1805-1840 Unitarian Congregationalist David Gordon Lyon 1882-1910 Baptist James Hardy Ropes 1910-1933 Trinitarian Congregationalist Henry Joel Cadbury 1934-1954 Quaker Amos Niven Wilder 1956-1963 Congregationalist George Huntston Williams 1963-1980 Unitarian Harvey Gallagher Cox, Jr. 2001-2009 Baptist Karen Leigh King 2009- Episcopalian HDT WHAT? INDEX REVEREND DAVID TAPPAN THE TAPPAN FAMILY 1793 December: The Reverend Abiel Abbot preached for a few Sundays in West Newbury, Massachusetts after the Reverend David Tappan, Harvard Class of 1771, had removed from the pulpit there to become Professor of Divinity in Harvard College. TAPPAN FAMILY Dr. Erasmus Darwin faced trial for seditious libel in regard to an “ADDRESS” of the Derby Society for Political Information to their fellow citizens of which, actually, he had not been the author. THE LUNAR SOCIETY OF BIRMINGHAM This had been written by William Ward after a meeting of the Society held at the Talbot Inn, Irongate, Derby, on July 16th, 1792. Almost certainly it had been printed at the Derby Mercury. It had been picked up by a London newspaper the printer of which was being sued for sedition at Kings Bench Court. The case was defended by Thomas Erskine, a M.P. for Portsmouth, whose “Plan B” in the courtroom was to suggest, albeit incorrectly, that perhaps it had been written instead by Dr. Darwin. This defense of William Ward would prove successful, and then there would be no further proceedings. HDT WHAT? INDEX REVEREND DAVID TAPPAN THE TAPPAN FAMILY 1794 Sylvestre François Lacroix was aiding his old instructor, Professor Gaspard Monge, in creating material for a course on descriptive geometry. The degree of D.D. was conferred on Professor David Tappan by Harvard College. Timothy Alden, Jr. took his doctorate from Harvard College in Classical and Oriental Languages with high ranks. He would become a teacher at Marblehead, Massachusetts. Elijah Dunbar, also graduating from Harvard, prepared an assignment that has been preserved, “Calculation and Projection of an Eclipse of the Sun, to happen August 25th, 1794” (14 ½ x 21 ¼ inches). <http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/~hua17004>2 NEW “HARVARD MEN” DUNBAR FAMILY 2.
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